The court upheld the use of Urdu, alongside Marathi, on a signboard in Maharashtra, dismissing the misconception that Urdu is foreign to India. It cautioned against associating language with ...

Language is not religion and to consider Urdu as a language of Muslims is a "pitiable digression" from reality and unity in diversity, the Supreme Court has said while rejecting a petition ...

(HT_PRINT) The Supreme Court on April 15 upheld the use of Urdu on the signboards of a municipal council in Maharashtra, saying that Urdu and Marathi have the same status under the Constitution.

The Supreme Court has said it is a “pitiable digression from reality” to believe that Hindi is the language of the Hindus and Urdu of the Muslims. A language is only a means of communication ...

India’s top court upheld the use of Urdu on public signboards in Maharashtra, rejecting the notion that the language was alien to the country. The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Urdu and ...

The Supreme Court of India has finally brought clarity to a long-contested question: Is Urdu an Indian language? In its unequivocal verdict, the Apex court affirmed that Urdu is as Indian as Hindi ...

The Supreme Court has affirmed the use of Urdu on the signboard of Patur Municipal Council in Maharashtra, emphasizing that language should not be a cause of division. The court highlighted Urdu's ...

The Supreme Court upheld the use of Urdu on a Maharashtra municipal council's name board alongside Marathi, saying that the language cannot be tied to any particular religion and that there is no ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a plea challenging the use of Urdu on a municipal signboard in the town of Patur in Maharashtra’s Akola district. The court said that the prejudice against ...

The bench refused to interfere with the Bombay High Court's earlier finding that the use of Urdu is not prohibited under the Maharashtra Local Authorities (Official Languages) Act, 2022, or any ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the use of Urdu alongside Marathi on the signboard of a municipal council in Patur, Maharashtra, ruling that both languages enjoy equal constitutional status.

The Supreme Court has recently stated that Urdu is “the finest specimen of Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb" or the “Hindustani tehezeeb" upholding the use of Urdu on a signboard of a municipal council building ...